GENERAL REFERENCE MATERIALS AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences
http://www.naturalsciences.org/

TUTORIALS, ASK AN EXPERT, AND MESSAGE BOARDS

Academic Assistance Access - a homework helper where you (and others) email questions and everyone receives back by email the answers to all questions asked.  You have to join the email list, which is free and fast, and designate the area in which you are joining, which includes high school subjects, including science, and college subjects, including geology  
http://www.tutoraid.org/faq/

Mad Scientist Network - Online expert answers to your science questions in over twenty-five areas of science, and you get to state the level at which you are studying so the response is appropriate to your level of information. Also has archives so you can check previously asked and answered questions
http://www.madsci.org/current.html

EARTH SCIENCE AND GEOLOGY

About Geysers   
http://www2.wku.edu/www/geoweb/geyser/about2.html

Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO)    
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/

Center for Earth and Planetary Studies Home Page - The Smithsonian Institution's page is designated as an official NASA Regional Planetary Image Facility. Links to planetary, Space Shuttle, aerial photography, and astronomical imagery.
http://www.nasm.edu/ceps/

Earth and Sky Radio Series
http://www.earthsky.com/

Earth Fact Sheet
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact.html

Earth Observation Magazine Online  
http://www.eomonline.com/

Earthquake Info from the U.S. Geological Survey
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/

Earth's Active Volcanoes
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/world.html

The Geologist's Lifetime Field List -- A list of sites around the world that geologists should visit with information and links
http://www.uc.edu/geology/geologylist/

Geology Department of the University of California at Davis - academic website with links to topic pages. Section on "Classes with web pages available" is a list of links to pages pertaining to specific courses, each with course outlines, professors' home pages, abstracts of textbooks to be used, and websites of interest. The "Active Tectonics Project" and "Earthquake Information" pages are particularly loaded with links
http://www-geology.ucdavis.edu/

GeoScience   
http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~johnstos/geosci.html

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Great Globe Gallery – slow to load but an incredible site with nearly every kind of map and images of Earth. our planet. "Projections" shows the various types of map projections (i.e., transverse mercator, polyconic, lambert, etc.) currently in use.  
http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~zbzw/glob/glob1.htm

Learning Web - earth science from the US Geological Survey
http://www.usgs.gov/education/

North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences  
http://naturalsciences.org

Geology Labs Online - including Virtual Earthquake – experimental seismology site on how an earthquake epicentre is located and how the Richter magnitude of an earthquake is measured
http://vcourseware2.calstatela.edu/GeoLabs/index.html

The Volcano Information Center (VIC)  
http://magic.geol.ucsb.edu/~fisher/

Volcano World - best of the volcano sites, includes Ask a Volcanologist, monthly contest, lots of informations and pictures   
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/

Worldwide Museum of Natural Museum - "on-line museum"
http://www.wmnh.com/wmhome.htm

ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT

EnviroLink    
http://envirolink.org/

Environmental Information on the Internet - links to resources and other directories
http://www.ovam.be/internetrefs/english.htm

Environmental News Network (ENN)  
http://www.enn.com/

Friends of the Earth - out of Great Britain  
http://www.foe.co.uk/

United States Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov

ENERGY

Solar Energy  
http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/solar/solar.htm

WEATHER

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)  
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/

The Weather Channel - information, trivia, educational resources  
http://www.weather.com/

WeatherNet   
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/

ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS AND PUBLICATIONS

Amazing Environmental Organization Web Directory – with a search engine and numerous links to the home pages of groups and people concerned with environmental issues
http://www.webdirectory.com/

E-The Environmental Magazine
http://www.emagazine.com/

The Earth Times - electronic journal of environmental news
http://earthtimes.org/

Earth Watch
http://www.earthwatch.org/

Earth and Environmental Science - links to resources by U.S. Geological Survey 
http://info.er.usgs.gov/network/science/earth/index.html

EnviroLink
http://envirolink.org/

Environmental Information on the Internet - links to resources and other directories
http://www.ovam.be/internetrefs/english.htm

Geology Department of the University of California at Davis - academic website with links to topic pages. Section on "Classes with web pages available" is a list of links to pages pertaining to specific courses, each with course outlines, professors' home pages, abstracts of textbooks to be used, and websites of interest. The "Active Tectonics Project" and "Earthquake Information" pages are particularly loaded with links
http://www-geology.ucdavis.edu/